Eliska Drapalova Address Via Celso 17, 50139 Florence, Italy Mobile (+420 605911125) Email drapalova@hertie-school.org POSITION Postdoctoral fellow at the Organizations, Management and Leadership Cluster, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin EDUCATION September 2011-2016 European University Institute, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Italy PhD Candidate (2011-2015) in Political Economy Thesis titled: Good Apples on Bad Trees: The Causes of Variation of Level of Corruption in European Local Government (Pepper Culpepper, Donatella della Porta, Victor Lapuente and Alina Mungiu-Pippidi) September 2011- Aug 2012 September 2009- June 2010 October 2007- June 2011 European University Institute Florence, Master s of Political Science Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Studied at the College of Arts and Humanities through the Erasmus Programme Courses in Comparative politics, Irish Politics, Contemporary Political Though, Comparative Public Policy, European Politics, Culture and Ethnic Conflict. Univesidad de Murcia, Spain, College of Political Sciences Title MA (four years, Licenciado) in Political Science, Sociology and Administration -First class honours Double BA degree obtained by coursing common Sociology and Political Science modules SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS August 2015 CIS Harvard Summer School in Social Sciences, (ranked 4th best application from more than 100 applications - merit based -Declined) September 2011- August 2015 April 2014- May January 2012 Scholarship by Spanish Ministry of Education, FECYT and Salvador Madariaga for fully funded Ph.D. (4 years) Visiting Research Fellow at the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden University of Murcia prize for the best Master Student (Premio Extraordinario del Fin de Carrera), University of Murcia, Spain 1
June 2009- July 2009 Scholarship from Spanish Ministry of Education for English language courses abroad, Spanish Ministry of Education WORKING PAPERS/CURRENT RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES Good Apples on Bad Trees: The Variation of Level of Corruption in Italian and Spanish Local Government (submitted) Journal targeted: Governance The Tale of Two Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Corruption in Two Sicilian Cities (revising) Special Issue titled: Refocusing the Analysis of Conflict, Protests and Mobilizations in the Neoliberal Crisis. Bringing Capitalism Back in Social Movement Research, Journal of Anthropological Theory (editor of special issue, status accepted) November 2015 Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany Presentation and discussion of original paper: Role of Business Association for Curbing Corruption July 2015 Sciences Po, Graduate Political Economy Workshop, Reims, France Presentation and discussion of original paper: Opting out from Corruption: why politicians should improve quality of government April 2015 CEU, Graduate Political Economy Workshop, Budapest, Hungary Presentation and discussion of original paper: Opting Out from Corruption: Why Politicians Should Improve Quality of Government January 2015 September 2014 June 2014 University of Sussex, Center for the Study of Corruption, Brighton, UK Participating in the Annual Graduate Anti-corruption Conference, Presentation and discussion of original paper, Good Apples on Bad Trees: The Variation of Level of Corruption in Italian and Spanish Local Government Orientale (University of Naples), Italy Participating in the Annual General Meeting of the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE); Presentation and discussion of original paper, Between the Rock and the Hard Place. The (non)influence of Civil Society on Corruption on the panel of which I was a co-chair titled, Political Economy and Social Movement Studies: Bridging some Theoretical and Political Gaps University of Innsbruck, Austria Participated in the ECPR Graduate Conference; Presented a original paper Between Sun and Snow: Comparative Analysis of Corruption in Spain and Sweden on the panel I chaired titled, Corruption and Rent-Seeking across Political and Economic Levels 2
May 2014 Quality of Government Institute, Goteborg, Sweden QoG Lunch Seminar Series. Presentation of my empirical case study chapter titled: Islands of Good Government. The Variation of Level of Corruption in Span and Italy April 2014 March 2014 February 2013 March 2013 March 2012 April 2012 University of Manchester, UK Participating in the Conference Alternative Futures and Popular Protests; Presentation and discussion (with Lorenzo Cini) of original paper, Protests Out of the Economic Crisis. The Movimento 5 Stelle in Italy and 15M in Spain: Two Instances of a New Politics? Washington D.C, USA Participating in the 21 st Conference for Europeanists (CES): Resurrections; Presentation and discussion (with Lorenzo Cini) of original paper, Bringing Politics as a Common Good Back In. The Mobilizations of Movimento 5 Stelle in Italy and 15M in Spain. Central European University, Hungary Graduate Student Political Economy Workshop at CEU, Budapest Presented paper In Business We Trust: the role of cooperation in low trust environments University of Florence, Italy Participating in the XXVII Convegno SISP (Società Italiana di Scienza Politica); Presentation and discussion (with Lorenzo Cini) of original paper, Protecting the Commons. Mobilizations against Political Corruption in Italy, on the panel titled, And Now Kill Us All. The Challenges of Mobilizations against Corruption and Organized Crime Sciences Po Bordeaux, France Participating in the ECPR General Conference 2013 (European Consortium for Political Research); Presentation and discussion of original paper, Good Apples on Bad Trees: Business, Politics and Corruption in Italian local government, on the panel titled, Corruption and Development London School of Economics, London, UK 6 th European Graduate Network Conference Presenstation and discussion of paper Towards a Bottom-up Guerrilla Strategy to Fight Corruption: The Role of Business Associations and Coalitions in Limiting Corruption Humboldt University Berlin, Germany 5 th European Graduate Network Conference Presenstation and discussion of paper Toward Comprehensive Assessment of Quality of Government at Local Level European University Institute, Florence, Italy Focus on Italy workshop organized by Dr. Sven Steinmo, Presentation of paper Cheating on Democracy: History of Business Entrepreneurship and Corruption in Italy 3
SUMMER SCHOOLS AND CERTIFICATES July 2012 June2012 September 2012 October 2012 Teacher Training Certificate, European University Institute Taught by Professor Neil McLean, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Participating in the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques 2012 Course: Multivariate Regression Analysis University of Ljubljana, Dept of Economics Slovenia Ljubljana Summer School in Economics, Course: Master class in Corruption and Development Uninomade Summer School, Italy Participated at the Summer School of Contemporary Political Philosophy in Passignano sul Trasimeno (Perugia), organized by Uninomade; Theme: Conricerca e biocapitalismo University Passau, Germany "The Economics of Corruption: The Behavioural Limits of Dishonesty", Summer school on experimental and innovative method of research on corruption (organized by Dr. Johann Graf Lambsdorff), presentation of my research design and experiment, poster presentation. WORK AND TEACHING EXPERIENCES September 2015- August 2016 Hertie School of Governance, Organization, Management and Leadership Cluster, Germany Postdoctoral Research Fellow September 2014- February 2015 January 2014- May 2014 October 2014- June 2015 European University Institute, Department of Political Sciences, Italy Research Assistant in the Department of Political and Social Sciences European University Institute and Robert Schuman Centre Team Leader of Czech Team for EUandI research project Team coordination, questionnaire design, and contact with politicians and supervision of coding procedure European University Institute, Italy Working Group Organizer: Organized and presented the seminar series devoted to Marxism(s) in Social Movements. Is Marx Back in Social Theory?, in collaboration with the Centre of Social Movement Studies (COSMOS), directed by Professor Donatella della Porta. We have hosted several important academics: Prof. Wolfgang Streeck, Prof. Andrew Ross, Prof. Antonio Negri among others May 2013 European University Institute and University of Florence, Italy 4
Conference organizer: Organized and Presented at the international conference It s Capitalism, Stupid! in collaboration with the EUI student association. April 2011- May 2011 January 2011-Dec 2011 Oct 2010- Jul 2011 Teacher Training Certificate, European University Institute Taught by Professor Neil McLean, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The course included lecturing techniques and building own syllabus Consejería de la Presidencia de la Región, Murcia, Spain. Assistant in Oficina Europea My task was collaboration and assistance on EU projects. Editing a booklet Murcia MADE IN Europa about the role of regional government in the European context. Editing booklet on regional lobbies and new strategies for regional politics in EU. Developing quality assessment of COREPER. Political Science Department of University of Murcia Research Assistant in international project: Do Traditional Get Out the Vote Campaigning Methods Work in Spain? A Pilot Experiment on Non-Partisan Mobilization of Immigrant and Native Voters, (coordinator of research Dr. Laura Morales University of Manchester). Political Science Department of University of Murcia Research Assistant (Dr. Fernando Jimenez) Organization of academic conferences & workshops as a different section March 2010 Sep 08- Jul 09 Trinity College Dublin and Oierachtas Committee on Electoral Reform. Co-Author of proposal of Irish electoral reform, analysis of the politics of gender equality and proposal for reducing gender gap in Irish political representation. Political Science Department of University of Murcia Research assistant in regional and national project: Effect of National and Regional Electoral Campaigns on the Vote and co-organization of conferences and workshops Debating Europe where scholars and politicians debate with students the future and the current problems of the European Union and its member states. ACADEMIC SERVICE September2015- May 2016 September 2014- March 2015 Organizer of the OML Research Colloquium Organizer of the 7 th Graduate Network Conference at the EUI and SNS, Florence. member universities: EUI,CEU, SNS, LSE, IHS, UPF, Humboldt, Sicences Po) June 2014 Co-chair of Political Economy Section at the ECPR Graduate Conference, Innsbruck 5
January 2013- December 2013 November 2012- March 2013 November 2013- March 2014 EUI student representative in the SPS Department Coordinator of the 5th European Graduate Network Conference at LSE (London) Coordinator of the 6th European Graduate Network Conference at Science Po (France) LANGUAGES (According to the Common European Framework of References for Languages. A: Basic user. (A1: Breakthrough, A2: Way stage); B: Independent user. (B1: Threshold, B2: Vantage); C: Proficient user. C1: Effective Operational Proficiency. C2: Mastery). Self- assessments, when not stated otherwise. Czech: native Spanish: C2 English: C1, (TOEFL 101/120 passed 2012 in Valencia) Italian: B2 French: A2 Slovak: B2 RESEARCH INTERESTS INFORMATICS Themes in political economy. Distributive politics, political corruption. Regional and local politics and elections, experimental political science and economy, behavioural economy. Quality of government and effect of economic crisis on aspect of political and social life. Quantitative and qualitative methodology and experiments. Knowleage of SPSS,STATA, R, Z-Tree (basic) REFERENCE Prof. Pepper D. Culpepper, European University Institute (supervisor) Pepper.Culpepper@eui.eu Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Donatella della Porta, Director of COSMOS, Professor at Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence and Professor at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, EUI, Florence donatella.dellaporta@eui.eu Prof. Bo Abraham Mendel ROTHSTEIN, August Röhss Chair in Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Bo.Rothstein@pol.gu.se +46 (0)31 786 1224 Prof. Fernando Jimenez Sanchez, University of Murcia, Spain fjimensan@um.es Dr. Luis Ramiro, University of Leicester, UK lr144@leicester.ac.uk 6